February 13, 2014 - Champaign, Illinois - The OpenMP ARB, a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations developing the OpenMP API specification for shared-memory parallelization, appointed Dieter an Mey to its Board of Directors. Dieter brings a wealth of experience as an OpenMP user to the Board.

Dieter an Mey leads the High Performance Computing team of the IT Center RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He has a 30+ year track record in HPC with an emphasis on user support and services. Ever since vectorization and message passing and the release of the first OpenMP API specification in 1997, Dieter and his group have actively participated in the OpenMP community. He is co-author of numerous publications on OpenMP programming and productivity.

“I believe Dieter will bring a much needed non-commercial viewpoint to the Board, as well as a non-US viewpoint”, said Michael Wong, OpenMP CEO. “He has been a long-time, active OpenMP proponent who is widely respected within the OpenMP community.”

Dieter joins Josh Simons of VMware, Sanjiv Shah of Intel, Andy Fritsch of Texas Instruments and Partha Tirumalai of Oracle on the OpenMP Board of Directors.